On this day we continued with notes over WWII. We heard about the assigned blog over watching one more WWII movie.
Genocide: An act of singling out a people or race and systematically killing them. An example is the Holocaust.
Basics of Holocaust: 2/3 of the Jews in Europe were killed. A differing number of deaths goes from 6 million to 11 million to 12 million to 17 million people even up to 18 million people. Not just Jews but also Gypsies, handicaps, homosexuals, etc.
Aryan: Adolf Hitler believed that the Aryans were the master race and wanted them to replace the Jews after they were all killed. Originated around Germany, not true-definition of African-born people. Aryan women that were unwed were supposedly forced to make children.
Early in the Holocaust: Hitler did not begin with just killing the Jews, but Hitler started with one question: how do we get rid of the Jews? His answer: genocide.
Baby-Steps: Hitler started with segregation. Nuremburg Laws took away citizenship from the Jews, no relations between Jews and non-Jews, and Jews could only marry other Jews. Further, Jewish children could not go to a public school, and businesses were taken over.
Kristallnacht: Nazis went into Jewish towns and burned things, ransacked, their houses, buildings, businesses, etc. Though it was not aimed at killing Jews, but some were arrested, but not put in death camps.
Bigger-Steps: Systematic murder of mentally and physically disabled people in Germany and Austria. Jews required to wear bands or stars.
Even-Bigger-Steps: Deporting of Jews from Germany to Poland. Jews forced in ghettos. First mass murder of Jews in Poland in concentration camps.
Start of Genocide-Ukranian Jews killed at BabiYar-a number of 33, 771 Jews, the biggest of the Holocaust. Death camps otherwise started terminating the Jews.
Officially In- Hitler decides killing Jews is the best solution. Thousands of Jews killed within months. The United States and other allies almost refused to help them because they were not militaristic in ways. They were focused on winning the war.
Things Get Worse-By 1943 Jews are being killed left and right. Rebelling is almost suicide because they would be shot instantly. Uprising is unacceptable.
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